The Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

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"An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume From Fukushima: Is There A Correlation?"
by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
Initial signs of the global health impact of the Fukushima disaster in the United States.
<http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/HS42_1F.pdf>
"North Korea's Justifiable Anger"
by Stansfield Smith
An anti-imperialist perspective on US conflict with North Korea.
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/>

Monday, 30 March 2009

The $$$ Edition

Dollars and Sense blogs about We20, "the people's G20."
"The website at we20.org acts as a facilitator and hub for these meetings. Visitors to the site can find an existing meeting or set one up to discuss and agree on a local, national or global challenge, or to read and vote on plans from other we20 meetings."

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

New ideas for old institutions

New solutions for fighting hunger…
"In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by scarcity of food but scarcity of democracy." Frances Moore Lappe explores how Brazil's 4th largest city has recruited farmers to do something the US cities have yet to do: end hunger.

New thoughts on the death of the print industry…
In These Time's Jeremy Gantz evaluates the coverage of the crisis in print journalism and highlights Clay Shirky's recent piece as "the best meditation on the death of newspapers." Shirky argues: "When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before [...]More

Quick labor news: CNA & SEIU have decided to make it work! Beyond the obvious implications for health care workers struggling for their rights, SEIU will join CNA to push single-payer health care (at the state level, at least). More

Thursday, 19 March 2009

APC Blog for March 19, 2009

And following up on APC's Baby Blog earlier this month, some postings about mothers.

New Internationalist's March issue focuses on maternal mortality. The average lifetime risk for maternal mortality in the west is 1 in 8,000, compared with 1 in 450 in developing nations. Get more facts here and read why women are still dying in childbirth in the same numbers as decades ago here.

"From the International Monetary Fund, you know, the people who shoved
unfettered global profit-seeking down the throats of impoverished
countries for decades, comes this fabulous insight: inadequate
regulation was the major cause of the current financial crisis."